After reading this mind-blowing discovery, students showed in standard form how to write two trillion- so many zeroes! This led to a great opportunity to show scientific notation in action which illustrated a more efficient way of representing these huge quantities. From this discussion, students also used the information to scale down the quantities to previous understandings (we thought it contained 10 times less galaxies), as well as starting to extend their mathematical thinking about reciprocals (we can reduce it by a tenth by multiplying by 1/10!). In addition, students took a moment to discuss if quadrillion was a true quantity, evaluated their sources used to research about this using the CRAAP system, and asked each other to provide evidence for thought.